XPost: alt.fan.j-garofalo, alt.atheism, alt.radio.talk   
   XPost: seattle.politics   
      
   On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 00:36:00 GMT, "Christopher Helms"   
    wrote:   
      
   >>Dogma generally and Conservatism specifically is about simple answers   
   >>so you don't have to worry or think.   But simple answers can get you   
   >>into complex messes. And they won't get you out. Iraq is a fine   
   >>example of that. No welcoming parades.   
   >   
   >Well, there was sort of a welcoming parade but I believe that was staged.   
   >Everybody running around the base of the Saddam statue with identical   
   >American flags should have been suspicious lookng to a lot of people. What   
   >originally turned me against invading Iraq was the realization that the   
   >whole concept was being peddled to us like potato chips or something. Nobody   
   >had to sell war to us after Pearl Harbor, and most people understood that   
   >invading Afganistan was a response to Sept. 11th and the Talibans refusal to   
   >turn over bin Laden. A legitimate war doesn't need to be sold. Nobody had to   
   >crank the public into a frenzy for Afganistan and the Bush administration   
   >didn't have to keep changing the rationalization for it. Even if you didn't   
   >agree with it, at least you understood what we were doing and why.   
      
      
   That and isn't it amazing after 9-11 we're going into a war, where no   
   one has to sacrifice at home?  In fact, not only do you not have to   
   tighten your belt to support the war, you get a tax cut and are told   
   its your patriotic duty to go consume.  Doesn't sound like any wary I   
   ever heard of.   
      
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